Privacy Policy

This website is owned and operated by Ashoka Lion Consulting, LLC.

Ashoka Lion Consulting, LLC and its affiliate companies (collectively “Ashoka Lion”) respect the privacy of its online visitors and recognize the importance of providing a secure environment for them. Below you will find the Privacy Policy for www.AshokaLion.com and affiliated sites effective January 26, 2017. We understand that submitting personal information on the Internet involves significant trust on your part. We value your trust, and make it a high priority to ensure the security and confidentiality of the personal information you provide to us. Please read this policy to learn about our privacy practices. This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this web site and by visiting this website, you are accepting the practices described herein. It will notify you of the following:

The personally identifiable information we collect from you through the web site, how it is used, and with whom it is shared.

What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.

The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.

Display of tailored advertising.

External links.

How you can contact us.

If you are a visitor from outside the United States, the personal information you provide may be transferred to, stored, and processed within the United States or other countries where Ashoka Lion maintains facilities or business operations.

What personal information is collected?

Ashoka Lion only collects personal information on a voluntary basis. We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via the website, email and/or other direct contact from you.

How do we use your personal information?

Most of the time, we will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request or for marketing purposes, e.g. respond to a question posed on the Contact Us webpage or inform you of new services Ashoka Lion may be offering.
Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy. Personal information collected may include your name, address, property name, phone number, e-mail address, and/or additional comments. If you are submitting a rental application, we additionally ask for your birth date, number of occupants, drivers license number and state, date of anticipated move in, whether you are a Section 8 tenant, the names, ages, and relationship of all occupants, your rental history, employment history, automobile information, emergency contact information, and/or any additional information Ashoka Lion deems necessary to assess an applicant’s viability. We do not require this information to gain access to our sites, however, you will not be able to utilize certain services or features that require registration or receive materials such as newsletters unless such information is provided. Lastly, we may use your personal information for internal marketing, profiling, or demographic purposes, so we can adapt our products and services to better suit your needs. We do this to better understand and serve our customers.

If you are a property owner, tenant, or vendor registered with Ashoka Lion, you will receive via email a login ID and password which you may use to access, through our website, specific portals in furtherance of Ashoka Lion’s services. Access to these portals are limited to users registered with Ashoka Lion and such access is not governed by this Privacy Policy.

Please be advised that personal information submitted by individuals acting solely in a business capacity (e.g., personal information contained in job applicant’s resume) is not subject to the uses set forth above or to any other practices stated in this Privacy Policy.

How do we collect your information?

When you are asked for information while on a Ashoka Lion site, you are sharing that information with Ashoka Lion and its various affiliates and sister companies, unless specifically stated otherwise. As a result of this sharing, you may receive communications from any of Ashoka Lion affiliates. In addition, some services are provided in conjunction with partner companies. If your personal information is being collected by another company other than Ashoka Lion, you will be notified at the time the information is collected. If you do not want your information shared, you can choose not to allow the transfer of information by not using that particular service or by not providing any information at that time.

Please be aware that we cannot control the activities of third parties to whom we provide data, and as such we cannot guarantee that they adhere to the same privacy and security procedures as Ashoka Lion.

Please be aware that advertisers or websites with links to our sites may collect personal information about you. As such, this Privacy Policy does not apply to, and cannot control the activities of, those other advertisers or websites.

With whom may your personal information be shared?

We reserve the right to disclose your personal information as required by law or in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing such information is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against you if you are violating the Terms of Use Agreements for a Ashoka Lion site, or may be causing injury to or interference (intentionally or unintentionally) with Ashoka Lion’s rights or property, other users of a Ashoka Lion site or product, or anyone else who could be harmed by your activities. We also reserve the right to disclose your personal information if we have a good faith belief that it is necessary to prevent fraud or other illegal activities.

We sometimes employ other companies and individuals to perform services for us. For example, we hire agencies to help administer consumer data, to analyze data, to fulfill requests, and to provide customer service. These parties are required to maintain any personal information they receive from you in confidence and may only use it in connection with the services they are providing to us.

As with any business, your personal information is also an asset of Ashoka Lion and will become part of our normal business records. As such, we may also disclose your personal information to a third party if we decide to sell a line of business to that third party, so you can continue to receive service and information in connection with that line of business with as little disruption as possible. Similarly, in the event of a merger, acquisition, reorganization, bankruptcy, or other similar event, your personal information may be transferred to Ashoka Lion’s successor or assign.

With regard to property owner and your sensitive private information obtained during tenant application/screening and such, we do not share the credit or consumer reports directly with the owner, but we will discuss the results with the owners regarding your application. However, if our property management relationship ends with the owner, then the owner may request these files be sent to the owner and/or new property management company who takes over after us.

What choices do I have regarding the collection, use, and distribution of my personal information?

Ashoka Lion allows you to control the way that we use personal identifying information that we might obtain. At the time you provide personal information to Ashoka Lion, we may give you the option of declining any future offers or information about new products, promotions, or services.

You may also opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number given on our website:

See what data we have about you, if any.

Change/correct any data we have about you.

Have us delete any data we have about you.

Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

In addition, many of the mailings, promotions, and/or newsletters Ashoka Lion may send you have procedures within them to cancel the receipt of any future mailings.

California Residents: Your California Privacy Rights

Under California law, our customers that are California residents may request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. As detailed above, we do not share our customer’s personal information with unaffiliated third parties for direct marketing purposes without their approval.

How secure is my personal information?

We take precautions to protect your information. While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. So, access to all personal information is strictly controlled.

We restrict access to personal information to Ashoka employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to process it on our behalf. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination, if they fail to meet these obligations. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, including appropriate encryption and physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.

Like most companies, we use “cookie” technology on our sites to collect aggregate information. When you log into one of our sites, the cookie tells us whether you’ve visited us before or are a new visitor. This allows us to measure the appeal of our sites to new and return visitors. The cookie doesn’t track any personal information about you or provide us with any way to contact you, and the cookie doesn’t extract any information from your computer. Cookies are simply the best way for us to be able to offer you the most enjoyable and hassle-free online environment.

External Links

Our sites may contain links to other sites, including other sites that are owned or operated by our affiliates or us. While we do our best to make sure that every link to a non-affiliated site sends you to a helpful place on the internet, we cannot guarantee the content of these non-affiliated sites. The non-affiliated sites will always have their own privacy policies. In addition, some of our affiliated sites also have their own privacy policies and are not subject to this policy. These affiliated sites or firms include, but are not limited to:

Transunion Screening

Pay Lease Inc.

Buildium Inc.

You should always check the privacy policy of the specific site you’re visiting to understand your rights.

How can you contact us?

If you have any questions, complaints, or comments regarding our privacy policy statement or policies, please contact our Privacy Policy Administrator at contact us page on the website.

By using this Website, you signify your assent to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use this site. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time, so please check back periodically to ensure that you are aware of any changes. If we make a material change to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by posting the change on this website or in this Privacy Policy and, if necessary, give you additional choices regarding such change. Your continued use of the Ashoka Lion website or affiliates will signify your acceptance of these changes.